Re: Free Software and the New Sexism

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

Taylan Kammer wrote:
> I genuinely care about sexism.  The commonly recognized kind, that targets 
> women.
>   

The fundamental problem here is that all of the issues these CoC 
documents are supposed to address are entirely off-topic and 
inappropriate in a software development context.  Sexism, racism, 
whatever-ism-of-the-day are all irrelevant because discussions are 
supposed to focus on the /software/ instead of on the /people/ writing 
the software.  Yes, your patch proposing to add "sex" to Guix's CoC was 
wrong, but the CoC itself is wrong in the same way as your patch:  none 
of those issues are relevant.

Put another way, on the Internet, to other users, you are not a person, 
you are a stream of messages.  More idealistically, on the Internet, 
/you/ /are/ /your/ /ideas/.

Efforts to thwart that, efforts to carry real-world baggage into the 
Internet space, are, put simply, /wrong/, not that this seems to stop 
much of anyone anymore.  We are now beginning to reap the consequences 
of this bad behavior.


-- Jacob